Re: [Oorexx-devel] Discuss: Open source encryption software export regulations

2012-10-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: ...we are responsible for ensuring that it does not fall into the wrong hands (a banned country). What stops anyone from downloading pretty much any code they want to use, in the UK or USA or wherever, then putting it on a USB stick and sending it

[Oorexx-devel] Emailed copies of bugs/patches threads

2012-10-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Does anyone else find the new messages unwieldy compared with the old-style ones? With what we had before, since most types of post contained the whole history of a thread up to that point, I merely made sure I only had the most recent post for each thread. But now, each thread seems to have a

[Oorexx-devel] External function file search in Ubuntu

2012-09-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
There's been a long thread in comp.lang.rexx in the last few days from someone trying to get external functions to work on an Ubuntu system. This was ooREXX 4.1.2 The user's problem turned out to be due to him making function calls with unquoted function names, which were folded to uppercase by

Re: [Oorexx-devel] External function file search in Ubuntu

2012-09-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: This is working correctly. The function name uses normal Rexx rules for name resolution. If the call name is coded as a symbol, then the name being called is ALWAYS the uppercase version, since all symbols have as an eventual value the uppercase value

Re: [Oorexx-devel] External function file search in Ubuntu

2012-09-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Because it IS part of the search order. But that really only applies to the searches using file extensions. This is not done with the raw name because it resulted in too many false positives with non-rexx programs (this was actually added at one

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Missing tracker notifications

2012-09-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: I just discovered there have been multiple tracker items created over the last couple of days, but I never got tracker notifications for these. Are others seeing these notifications? No; I think I've seen one commit msg in the last two days and nothing

[Oorexx-devel] Differing formats of commit emails?

2012-09-01 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Is there a reason why most (all?) of the commit emails I've received until today had subjects like: Subject: [oorexx:code-0] miesfeld committed to Open Object Rexx Code SVN Repository: Publican ooDialog - work on links but I've just received a couple with subjects like: Subject:

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Docs to Publican Status

2012-08-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: I am not 100% sure, but I believe it has to do with elements that will not completely fit on a page. For instance, an ordered list or a paragraph. I think it is warning that it had to break the element and continue it to the next page. If all the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: These are fundamentally different constructs. Do Over actually requests a new version from the collection which is defined as being non-sparse. The sort is an in-place modification of the array itself. REXX used to have a principle of least

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu-wien.ac.at wrote: Yesterday I stumbled over a surprising behaviour of Array's sort, which led me to open a bug report https://sourceforge.net/p/oorexx/bugs/1107/. Obviously the sorting is working as designed, hence the reported behaviour was not accepted as

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad sorting arrays: request for discussion/thoughts ...

2012-08-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:15 AM, hakan hexi...@users.sourceforge.netwrote: I think it's not consistent with Do s over array say s end These are fundamentally different constructs. Do Over actually requests a new version from the collection which

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #473 String compares should have special exception for .nil

2012-08-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: This is fairly simple to implement for the equals/not equals variants. The real open question is how to handle the other comparisons such as , , etc. These are probably VERY rare situations, but the behavior still needs to be defined. I see three

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Is there any way to turn off HTML in the emails SF sends out?

2012-08-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu-wien.ac.at wrote: If you go to: https://sourceforge.net/auth/prefs/, you should find a drop-down box at the bottom, where you can choose Plain Text (other options: HTML, Combined) and pressing the button entitled Save Changes. Thank-you! Unfortunately I

[Oorexx-devel] Is there any way to turn off HTML in the emails SF sends out?

2012-08-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
The old emails I got when people updated bugs etc didn't have unnecessary html parts in them, but I see the new ones do. Does anyone know if there's a way to turn them off, either globally or at a user-level? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Comment on bug 2903480 - socksend error if first word of message ends in colon

2012-08-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: I closed that bug because the original submitter of the bug refused to provide a test case that demonstrated the bug. So, I had to build my own test case, and my test case worked fine. There was nothing in the original report that suggested a problem

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Comment on bug 2903480 - socksend error if first word of message ends in colon

2012-08-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge jn.ml.sfrg...@letterboxes.org wrote: There was nothing in the original report that suggested a problem with a MIME message, though. But he did. He said: Try changing the message text

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Comment on bug 2903480 - socksend error if first word of message ends in colon

2012-08-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: I'm in total agreement with Jerry on this one. This is an area I have a little bit of expertise, having written the Apache javamail implementation. Okay, I'll go back and look

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Request for directions (Fwd: [oorexx:code-0] miesfeld committed to Open Object Rexx Code SVN Repository: 1103 - makeorx.bat typo or not

2012-08-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Not going to work. The new tracker system forwards the emails using the email address of the sender, so we run into all sorts of permission problems with setting that up. And items now don't have a copy of a whole discussion in them? So we have to get

[Oorexx-devel] Comment on bug 2903480 - socksend error if first word of message ends in colon

2012-08-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Well: this is a test line. I wonder if this message will get sent? I certainly expect it to. In this bug report Mark recently said: More simply put, because of the definition of header fields, an email message body can not begin with a word ending in a colon because a line beginning

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Possible Documentation Change

2012-08-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: The document looks outstanding! It's certainly polished, in places. I just looked at some pages at random though and found one problem, where the shaded box around a syntax diagram straddles a page break - for 5.18 SockRecv at the foot of page 24.

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Debugging rexx internals...

2012-07-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: It would be doable, but the question is what is the option to do? I don't know, it would take someone smarter than me to figure out what the option does. It's hard to make an intelligent response to this, as I don't know the internals of ooRexx... but

[Oorexx-devel] Debugging rexx internals...

2012-07-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
In one of the support requests on the tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=684731aid=3516270group_id=119701 there's a long running problem with SysFileTree described, raised by Jerry Senowitz (jlsen). I recently commented:

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Debugging rexx internals...

2012-07-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I didn't mean to make you unhappy. If it's a slight consolation, I consider anything more than a few words in either the forums or the support requests a long debate. ;-) Ah, ok. What do the developers do to create a trace for themselves?

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooSQLite NULL value ?

2012-06-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just saying I think its place is in the application, or a higher level class that uses .ooSQLite. I think the same. Not sure if you know that you could use this syntax in ooRexx, or that you would like it: stmt ||= encapsulate(col1) || ,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooSQLiteDB name change to ooSQLiteDbConn or ?

2012-06-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: And indeed, you could also just change the name of the file used for ::requires and keep the names the same. That would allow for a pretty seamless upgrade path and it would still coexist with other programs that used a different version. I realise

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some comments on the ooSQLLite extension

2012-06-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: Here is an outline of the classes: * In SQLite, 95% of what any one would use are is done though APIs that either require a database connection or require a prepared statement. So the 2 main objects in ooSQLite are: Database connection: ::class

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooSQLiteDB name change to ooSQLiteDbConn or ?

2012-06-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: If the ooSQLite package gets included in the ooRexx distribution then an application written that uses ooSQLite will run on any system where the user of the application has ooRexx installed. And the user will not have to install anything else. But

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some comments on the ooSQLLite extension

2012-06-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge jn.ml.sfrg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Do you have a mechanism in mind to allow future versions of ooSQLLite to use V4/5/6... structs and APIs? How would a programmer dictate which set

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Question ad bug-e-mails ...

2012-06-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu-wien.ac.at wrote: Having subscribed the bug-tracking-list I wonder, why this post was not sent by Sourceforge, hence the question, whether anyone has received that mail? (Subject: Algorithm for changestr does not mention the optional count, author:

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooSQLiteDB name change to ooSQLiteDbConn or ?

2012-06-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml sourceforge
hakan hexi...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: No offense, but... and none taken. Isn't it great that someone take their time to implement the interface to SQLite when oneself is not talent/or lack the knowledge how to do it !. Yes, absolutely. If SQLite will evolve and that is delayed/not